If an object being passed to represet_data has a shorter lifespan than the representer, the results are unpredictable, but generally bad. In my case, I'm trying to represent a custom omap class. I register a representer like so:

Hold onto a reference to the original object as well as to the serialized object in represented_objects. This is what I did as a temporary fix.

Do some sort of weak reference magic to track if an object dies and then delete it from represented_objects. This is more complicated and I'm not entirely sure it would work well. The upside is it's possibly more frugal with memory.